Subject_1 DECISIONS of the LORDS OF COUNCIL AND SESSION, reported by SIR JOHN LAUDER OF FOUNTAINHALL.
The Countess of Weymss and her Baron-Bailie v. The Bailies of the Burgh of Wester-Weymss
Date: 14 July 1696
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Arbruchel reported the Countess of Weymss, and her Baron-bailie, against the Bailies of the Burgh of Wester-Weymss, who had suspended a stent imposed on them for repairing a bridge. They contended, By their erection they were not answerable to her courts, but had privileges within themselves derived from the Earl of Weymss.
The Lords, finding the stent was in re minima, and imposed of consent, decerned, without dipping or encroaching upon their privileges, or determining whether it was a non suo judice or not; or if the Earls of Weymss, granters of their charter, retained a cumulative jurisdiction, or gave it away privative.
